Kasoa
Kasoa is a peri-urban town in the Awutu Senya East Municipal District of the Central region of Ghana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 44,200 residents
- Description: human settlement in Ghana
- Also known as: “kaswa”, “odouponkupehe”, and “Oduponkpehe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ga South Municipal Assembly.
Ga South Municipal Assembly
Government office
Ga South Municipal Assembly is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Ga West District in 2004, until the western part of the district was split off to create the first Ga South… Ga South Municipal Assembly is situated 4 km east of Kasoa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buduburam and Ngleshie Amanfro.
Buduburam
Town
Photo: Acarvin, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers west of Accra, Ghana. It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War and the Second Liberian Civil War. Buduburam is situated 4½ km west of Kasoa.
Ngleshie Amanfro
Suburb
Ngleshie Amanfro is a town near Kasoa located in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region in Ghana. It is along the Accra-Cape Coast road. Ngleshie Amanfro is situated 4 km east of Kasoa.
Kasoa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Awutu Senya East, Central Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.5326° or 5° 31′ 57″ northLongitude
-0.4375° or 0° 26′ 15″ westPopulation
44,200Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)United Nations Location Code
GH KSAOpen location code
6CQXGHM7+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 990130114OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Urdu—“Kasoa” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Oduponkpehe”
- Cebuano: “Kasoa”
- Dutch: “Oduponkpehe”
- French: “Kasoa”
- German: “Oduponkpehe”
- Irish: “Kasoa”
- Japanese: “オドゥポンクペヘ”
- Moksha: “Касоа”
- Polish: “Oduponkpehe”
- Spanish: “Oduponkpehe”
- Swahili: “Oduponkpehe”
- Swedish: “Kasoa”
- Turkish: “Kasoa”
- Urdu: “کاسوا”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kasoa”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.